Vodka Martini With Buttermilk Blue Stuffed Olives

This terrific martini is easy to prepare, and is guaranteed to impress guests. If you’ve ever purchased blue cheese-stuffed olives only to be disappointed in the quality, here’s your opportunity to make them with the finest blue cheese. The recipe is from Chef/Owner David Burke, of Fromagerie restaurant in Rumson, New Jersey.

About Buttermilk Blue

Roth Käse’s Buttermilk Blue is a bold blue cheese with a full-on blue aroma (from the mold), with a creamy texture and a tangy, but not biting, buttermilk flavor. It’s called Buttermilk Blue because it actually delivers a flavor of buttermilk. Serve any leftover cheese crumbled over a green salad or sliced tomatoes and red onions, a burger, steak or sandwich.

Serves 1.

Ingredients

Buttermilk Blue Stuffed Olives

1 jar Spanish olives with pimento

4 ounces Buttermilk Blue or other
top-quality blue cheese

Rosemary sprigs, approximately two
inches long

Vodka Martini

3 ounces vodka

1 tablespoon vermouth

Ice cubes

Roth Käse Buttermilk Blue Cheese is available at iGourmet.com.

Preparation

Buttermilk Blue Stuffed Olives

Remove the pimento from the olive, and stuff the olive with the blue cheese.

Place the rosemary sprig in the cheese, as a skewer for the olives.

Repeat to prepare as many olives as necessary.

Vodka Martini

Pour the vermouth into a chilled martini glass and swirl around glass. Discard the vermouth.

Combine the vodka and ice in a shaker and shake vigorously. Strain the vodka into a martini glass, and garnish with several blue cheese-stuffed olives.